Bug in Outlook 2003's Reading Pane - it downloads attachments

[Steve]

Hi,

O2K3's Reading pane will download any attachments to a temporary folder
regardless as to the security settings within the application.

Can anyone else verify this please ?

This becomes noticable when the attachments contain viruses.... the virus
checker thankfully detects them, but... it probably wouldn't if the virus
was really new...


Thanks,


Steven.

 

[Brian Tillman]

O2K3's Reading pane will download any attachments to a temporary
folder regardless as to the security settings within the application.

Can anyone else verify this please ?

I can verify that attachments are not placed on disk until they're opened.
Moreover, the reading pane will not execute code.

 

[Steve]

Any idea why mine would be written to the disk ?

e.g.
C:\Documents and Settings\steve\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\OLKB\readme.zip



The attachments are on hotmail messages.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Any idea why mine would be written to the disk ?

e.g.
C:\Documents and Settings\steve\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\OLKB\readme.zip

If you were to open the zip file from within the message, then Outlook would
create the file you named. I have just tried it (again) and until I
actually opened the attachment, it was not written to the Outlook Secure
Temp Folder. If you see other behavior, then I believe you may have an
add-in that is automatically opening the attachment. It is not Outlook's
normal behavior.